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How's this for a scenario? 1) GM creates NPC that is a higher level but only with mental stats, but physical ones 2) GM attempts to use persuasion or deception on PC, using the basic rules that exist in the core book 3) player whines, lectures about correct GM etiquette, then threatens mutiny...

Corporate executive: I liked what I read from you in the forum. You seem like a smart cookie. Me: I am, thank you. Corporate executive: How would you like to lead a team to create your own custom tabletop strategic RPG, inspired by D&D? Me: Fine, as long as you’re okay with getting a product...

Wrong. AD&D is chock full of quite specific rules. There is a lot of nebulous rhetoric in that opening excerpt. I like 1e a lot but I also think it is far from perfect. I thought edition warring is frowned upon here? The opening excerpt seems like an invitation for it, with its overblown...

Here is just one example of how my revision adds that: original: “I would kill to acquire a noble title.” my revision: “I often dream about killing to acquire a noble title, a dream I find startlingly appealing. However, I refrain because it’s an evil act.” This one was awkward to revise...

I'm not seeing your point. Please clarify. Most of them don't work through implication. They overstate their case. Some aren't even flaws. I suppose those could work through implication if someone decides to create a flaw to go with the "flaw" that actually isn't a flaw. Why? Why aren't there...

Flaws that aren't flaws miss the point. Flaws that are, if interpreted straightly, debilitating aren't straight to the point. They require mental adjudication/adjustment. Hyberbolic language isn't straight to the point. It requires mental adjustment to compensate for it (more words produced...

Isn't the 1e Illusionist the most powerful version of that in D&D, excluding 3rd party stuff? Even the 1st level Phantasmal Force can make real things that don't require concentration.

Without contrast, gritty is meaningless. This is one of the biggest traps people fall into. They forget that contrast is essential for defining anything. You have to have things that aren't "gritty" to make the "grittiness" seem more apparent and more meaningful.

Then use the same wording so it's clear it's just the same flaw. That makes it easier for everyone because it's a lot less confusing than three of the same flaw with different wordings. The Flaws list is very flawed, in multiple ways. It's clear to me, at least, that not enough work was put in...

There's a reason satire is protected speech. Satirizing a noble is not a character flaw. It's a political inconvenience. This is one of the examples of the designer(s) not differentiating between baggage a character carries with them and actual character defects. I can see that implication but...

That example would work if D&D referred to species rather than races. Half-elves are half elf and half human. Where are all the horse-rabbit and human-frog offspring? In Hyperbole Land, perhaps. The definition of race in D&D is muddied but it's far removed from your analogy attempt.

I think elf type should be determined by location evolution primarily, although magical intervention is also a possibility. Forest elves get forest-related qualities. Subterranean elves get subterranean qualities (that means albino or very pale not black, depending on how much light exposure...

I don't think my post suggests that the flaws system is a bad idea. What I tried to convey is that there are imperfections in the current flaws (although not every one of them) that can be remedied. • duplications and no-shows. Some flaws are identical to others or are very similar. There are...

I'd say the minimalist presentation of elf is to have them be restricted to NPCs and to only have one type. I don't really get the "wood elf" at all. It seems like an excuse to pretend that everyone of one race is haughty and everyone of another is friendly (and less intelligent, which is...

I see. It's actually both. I changed the thread title to avoid the generalized reading of flaws.

What?

(My alternatives italicized) "I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely." "I am quite inclined to judge others and myself by an unreachable standard." "I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple's hierarchy." "I put too much trust in the temple hierarchy...

I tried to point out that having depth and breadth in mechanics for the social simulation aspect, and less of a wall between the Tactics subgame and the rest, can help to alleviate the alleged need for the players to have an acting background and such. Do players need to have...

This may be related to the lack of seriousness many players claim comes with the social simulation aspect. Many like to think RPG gaming means a Tactics quick combat simulator, where there isn't time for things like talk and appearance. They argue that charisma should be not a stat, at least not...

Nothing I said implied or stated that books and scrolls have to be moved or portable. As for this 10 foot rule, that's not in the quotation I was responding to, except at the very end of a post when I discussed the naming of the spell. The 10 foot rule appears, at least in these last pages of...